indignant - Story 72014 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

My cousin, Michael, called with the news: he was becoming a Hasidic Jew. My voice caught in my throat. I couldn't believe it. I’d spent my whole life trying to get him to see reason, to loosen up! He’d always been the carefree one. The sudden shift felt like a personal betrayal. I paced the kitchen, the linoleum cold beneath my bare feet. A pot boiled over on the stove, sending a plume of steam into the air. I let it bubble, ignoring the smell of scorched tomato sauce.

Emotion: indignant

Cluster: Anger / Hostility

PC1 (Valence): -0.44 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 2.14

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion indignant. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 indignant stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the indignant emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the indignant vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`l`	0.614
`C`	0.369
`de`	0.305
`que`	0.295
`😠`	0.288

Suppressed:

`own`	-0.363
`soon`	-0.302
`optimistic`	-0.270
`உற்ச`	-0.261
`gradually`	-0.256